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Adalbert’s letter was adopted as law. But the first nat-
ive archbishop of Kiev was of Norse origin. It is un-
likely that he was the only one of Norse stock in the
Church of Rus. According to some sources, Norse was
still spoken in the Volga area in the 13th century.‘-3 A
Norseman could be understood in Rus at that time, and
the same applied to an educated Russian in Scandinavia.
It is, therefore, not unnatural to presume that men from
this area got as far as Iceland to carry out missionary
work and win converts to their faith. But the influence
of the rich Byzantine art is felt all the way through the
length of Eastern Europe to Scandinavia.
Notes:
1. See Jón Jóhannesson: Islendingasaga I., p. 172 and the works
he quotes.
2. See Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. II, p. 785, and
Vol. IX, p. 697.
3. See Diplomatarium Islandicum III., p. 149.
4. Cf. Walter F. Adeney: The Greek and Eastern Churches, N. Y.
1908, p. 275, K. S. Latourette: A History of the Expansion of
Christianity, Vol. II, London 1947, p. 396.
5. See Fornvannen, 1947, p. 54—56.
6. See Fornvannen, 1958, p. 118—124.
7. Cf. Sven Ulric Palme: Kristendomens genombrott i Sverige,
Stockholm 1959, p. 126 f.
8. See Norsk Tidskrift for Sprogvidenskab, XIII, pp. 295—318.
9. See Henryk Paszkiewicz: The Origin of Russia, London 1954,
p. 393 f., and 459.
10. Cf. Arbman, op. cit., p. 98.
11. Cf. Paszkiewicz, op. cit., p. 190.
12. See op. cit., p. 147.
13. See in particular op. cit., pp. 381—404.
14. Cf. op. cit., p. 93 ff.
15. Cf. op. cit., p. 398.
16. See op. cit., p. 383 f.
17. Tome LXXXVII, Paris 1923, pp. 236—241.
18. 2. R. Vol. 2, 1884, pp. 354—386.
19. Copenhagen 1874—78, II, pp. 690—695.
20. See scholion 70 in the Gesta III, 16 and Diplomatarium Nor-
wegicum XVII No. 1.
21. See op. cit., p. 174.
22. Cf. David Talbot Rice: Russian Icons, London, N. Y., 1947,
p. 18.
23. Cf. Paszkiewicz, op. cit., p. 181.